4:38 AM,
Jul. 27, 2014

Handcuffs and fingerprints.

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A Muncie man has been accused of causing a 2012 traffic accident that claimed the life of an 89-year-old local woman.

Tra Hunter Privett, 20, 2909 N. Barr St., was arrested Friday evening, hours after he was formally charged with reckless homicide and causing death when driving with a controlled substance in the blood, both Class C felonies carrying a standard four-year prison term.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Privett was driving southbound on Wheeling Avenue on Aug. 6, 2012, when his vehicle crossed the center line and collided head-on with a northbound vehicle driven by Betty ...